When Cliches Come True: MADD is Mad

Posted by Tom Wark on Mar 16, 2013

Regarding the effort to finally privatize the commerce of alcohol in Pennsylvania and take it to the Free Market and out of the hands of government, the folks at Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) said:

“The CDC concluded that privatization of alcohol sales will result in a reduction in the enforcement of sales regulations including enforcement of the minimum legal drinking age. Therefore, policies or legislation transferring state alcohol control to private control are counter to MADD’s mission of eliminating drunk driving and preventing underage drinking.”

If this were true one would then expect Pennsylvania to have the lowest rate of drunk driving incidents in the country, save perhaps Utah. But they don’t.

But wait, there is more. In praising the MADD announcement opposing privatization in Pennsylvania, Wendell W. Young IV, President, UFCW Local 1776, and Chairman of the UFCW PA Wine & Spirits Council said:

“Obviously, the governor is not listening. He is just completely out of touch with working Pennsylvanians and he has decided to ignore the experts.”

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Larry Chandler - March 16, 2013

The union in Pennsylvania doesn’t want privatization because their members will lose their jobs, so (like the wholesalers in other states) they simply lie in an attempt to promote their own interests. It’s just like when Pennsylvania decided to open up some of their stores on Sunday. There were many pickets protesting the sale of alcohol on “the Lord’s Day”, but in reality they weren’t churchgoers specifically, but members of the union who just didn’t want to work on Sunday.

MADD is a neo-prohibitionist group that will do anything it can to hurt people’s efforts to buy alcohol.

And the reason there are relatively few DUIs in Utah is because 60% of the population doesn’t drink as a result of religious prohibitions, so the statistics are faulty.

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